Top 1200 Birth Defects Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

They're combining that new fertility drug with a birth control pill for people who don't want triplets.

Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.

Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!

Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.

The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.

I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being.

Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit.

The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some displace the ankles through the habit they have contracted of standing on one leg only and playing, as it were, with the other; placing it in a position which though disagreeable and strained, does not fatigue them, because the softness of their tendons and muscles lend themselves to all kinds of movement.

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

The dawning of the light of awareness is the new birth, where the sun rises and the day breaks within you.

I would like it to be the rules all round the world that that is the case - you manage the country of your birth.

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

If you really want a humanized birth, the best thing you can do is stay the hell out of the hospital.

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesn't have of given birth to another human being.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

Make your workplace into showcase that can be understood by everyone at a glance. In terms of quality, it means to make the defects immediately apparent. In terms of quantity, it means that progress or delay, measured against the plan, and is made immediately apparent. When this is done, problems can be discovered immediately, and everyone can initiate improvement plans.

I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.

I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

I wanted to be a 'jungle mom', where you're giving birth and getting up and doing things straightaway.

I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.

I call it the birth vision - what we are called to accomplish. If we follow this calling, we help spiritualize the planet.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

You might be a redneck if your birth announcement included the word rug rat.

I've always questioned death and birth and life. Where do we go? Are we here now? Or is this just one of the lives that we live?

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration. His administration has already very materially disgraced and sunk the government. There are defects in his character which must inevitably continue to do this more and more. And if he is supported by the federal party, his party must in the issue fall with him.

[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.

Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.

I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate.

The process of birth and the growth of human body into a complicated system are still a marvel for me.

[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father.